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NewsHSE issues new health and safety code for timber frames
Code set to protect people working or visiting timber frame construction sites
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NewsPlans for £18.5m Leicester Square revamp revealed
Westminster council launches search for top architect to help design scheme
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NewsCameron architect reveals green energy island plan
Each island of photovoltaics and wind turbines would be manned by 25 workers living off vegetables from a farm and recycled water
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Ocon posts first major profit
Manchester housing contractor announces plans to double turnover in five years as it reveals 12-month profit of £1.6m
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NewsMears profit forecast to rise 37%
Social housing contractor announces record order book of £1.4bn as City forecasts £16.84m profit for 2007
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NewsLiverpool spruces up its drab buildings
Banksy artwork to be preserved in initiative to decorate derelict and depressing buildings with artwork
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NewsHousing reservations down 9% at Redrow
Housebuilder says market was ‘significantly’ more challenging in last six months of 2007
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NewsStrong civils performance keeps Costain on track
Group reports a ‘significant’ recovery in profitability over 2007 as building division makes steady progress
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NewsPrivate housing orders fall 3%
Report indicates decline in private housing orders for the year to November
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NewsSustainability means regulation
The last year has seen a much sharper focus develop on just what sustainability means for construction, reckons Richard Francis. Now we can really start to tackle performance and measurement
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NewsThe business case for green buildings 2008
Our US green columnist is typically upbeat about how sustainability developed in 2007 - and next year looks even better
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NewsWhere pigeons fear to tread
Eight stories up and balanced on a parapet, even the pigeons can't bear to watch this madman
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NewsMiller records sharp fall in housing reservations
Construction group says there was a 29% fall in housing reservations in the second half of 2007
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NewsEnergy Performance Certificates - The services engineer perspective
In the last of our series on the rollout engineer David Altabev s still scratching his head about legal, renewable and logistical implications of the rollout of EPCs
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NewsLower demand hits Persimmon order book
Forward sales for 2008 fall 13% as housing slowdown begins to bite
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NewsProfitable Rok starts year with £3m acquisition
City predicts profit increase of 58% for Rok as it buys Scottish M&E contractor Pitkerro
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NewsSix artists vie to exhibit on Trafalgar Square plinth
Tracy Emin, Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor are on the shortlist to produce an artwork for the fourth plinth in central London
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Boss named for new Liverpool regeneration agency
Jim Gill will head agency created from a merger of three regeneration companies
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Mears Group scoops £65m Birmingham council job
Contractor secures position in the Midlands with repairs and refurb contract